After three years playing around with various brands of SUPs I want to share my favorite with you. It’s the Sea Eagle NeedleNose. I especially want to let you know that through June 30, 2016 they are having a really good sale on not just their NeedleNose model, but all of their SUPs, canoes, kayaks […]
Paddling at Dusk with the Black Skimmers and Sea Lions
These long summer evenings I launch my stand-up paddleboard across the San Diego Harbor as the light is fading and the last boats motor in from the open sea. Gulls and grebes float sleepily in clusters, barely bothering to move as I glide through silently, enjoying the windless dusk, the quiet and stillness of evening, […]
Picked up ULI Boards for Review
Today I went up to Vista, California to visit ULI, the original inflatable SUP company started by a surfer who loves to travel. Check out the blog, it’s awesome, and so is the gallery of people SUPing off waterfalls and other daring feats. ULI has a bunch of high-performance race and surf boards and some […]
Inflatable Stand-Up Paddleboards for Touring: Brands and Specs
Motorcycles and SUPs?! Yep… they’ve got inflatable ones now. First to be Here are brands and specs for the iSUPs I’ll be reviewing in the next months. Stay tuned for posts about paddleboarding and impressions. If you know of another iSUP board I should be throwing into this mix, please let me know!
YOLO Standup Paddleboards on San Diego Bay
Today I met Adam here on the beach in Point Loma demonstrating YOLO stand-up paddleboards, called SUPs here in surf-land. He let me try one out. It was really stable. A big trawler came by too fast – the speed limit here in the harbor is 5 mph, and I swear he was going twice […]